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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year? [News Bits]
- Suicide bombing kills at least 20 during a religious procession in Karachi earlier today.
- Intelligence officials had been warned by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's father of his extremist tendencies, and on Christmas day he attempted to blow up a plane bound for Detroit.
- The NY Times takes a deeper look into sexual abuse within our armed forces.
- An officer-involved fatal shooting occurred this morning during a domestic violence call in South Austin.
- Broadsheet: "What is it about the ostensibly most wonderful time of the year that makes it so fraught with potential violence?"
- Useful for parties: ALA releases "Quotable Facts about America's Libraries" for 2010. (pdf)
- The Love Guru: worst movie of the decade?
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